Bug 962255

Summary:	Squid linked openssl, Its license problem.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	mejiko <private>
Component:	squid	Assignee:	Michal Luscon <mluscon>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	18	CC:	henrik, jonathansteffan, mluscon, thozza
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Description mejiko 2013-05-13 01:51:19 UTC

Hello.

Squid licensed under GPL, but linked openssl.
OpenSSL license is incompatible GPL. 

Its non-free, because license problem.


Suggests:


1. Remove openssl support and rebuild. (Its simple)

2. replace GPL compatible library (Example: nss, gnutls, etc...) but Im not tested.

Note: GNUTLS is licensed under LGPL, nss is licensed under MPL version 2.0.

3. Contact Upstream author.

4. Remove Fedora repos.


Thanks.


Reference:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:FAQ?rd=Licensing/FAQ#What.27s_the_deal_with_the_OpenSSL_license.3F

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpenSSL

http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2741

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251988

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348261

Comment 1 mejiko 2013-05-13 01:51:57 UTC

Blocking FE-Legal, this is license problem.

Comment 2 mejiko 2013-05-13 02:16:41 UTC

Additional URI:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/10/msg00113.html

http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html

Comment 3 Henrik Nordström 2013-05-13 02:49:28 UTC

It is not seen as a license problem for Fedora where OpenSSL is considered as a system library. See the same Fedora Licensing FAQ link you posted.

There is however a policy decision to use a common TLS framework (NSS) and there is a existing bug report for that as you already found.

Feel free to reopen to continue discussion if you disagree with my understanding of Fedora Licensing requirements.